US11292538B2ActiveUtilityA1

System for automatically correcting bicycle handlebar and warehousing bicycle

Assignee: LIU YAJUNPriority: Dec 21, 2017Filed: May 28, 2020Granted: Apr 5, 2022
Est. expiryDec 21, 2037(~11.4 yrs left)· nominal 20-yr term from priority
Inventors:Yunbo Song
B62H 3/00B62K 21/10B62H 5/04B62J 45/422E04H 6/005B62H 3/02B62J 45/413
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Claims

Abstract

A system for automatically correcting bicycle handlebar and warehousing the bicycle includes a bicycle and a warehouse box for storing the bicycle. The bicycle includes a bicycle frame, a handlebar, a stem, a front wheel and a rear wheel; an encoder is mounted on a bicycle frame for recording a rotation angle of a stem and sensing whether the handlebar is corrected. A rear-wheel correcting and fine-adjusting device is provided in the warehousing box or on the bicycle frame. The rear-wheel correcting and fine-adjusting device automatically twists a rear wheel according to a deviation angle record of the encoder on the bicycle frame so that the rear wheel and a front wheel form a plane. The system is capable of automatically correcting the handlebar and warehousing the bicycle, thereby facilitating the automatic storage and greatly reducing the storage space in the warehousing box.

Claims

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What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A system for automatically correcting a position of a handlebar of a bicycle and warehousing the bicycle, comprising:
 the bicycle, and 
 a warehousing box for storing the bicycle; 
 wherein the bicycle includes a bicycle frame, the handlebar, a stem, a front wheel and a rear wheel; an encoder is mounted on the bicycle frame for recording a rotation angle of the stem and sensing whether the handlebar is corrected in position such that the front wheel and the rear wheel are aligned; a fine-adjusting device is provided in the warehousing box or on the bicycle frame and is configured to automatically twist the rear wheel according to the rotation angle of the encoder on the bicycle frame to align the rear wheel with the front wheel. 
 
     
     
       2. The system of  claim 1 , wherein when a user warehouses the bicycle into a vacancy in the warehousing, the user first aligns the front wheel and a guide slot of the vacancy in the warehousing box, and pushes the bicycle into the warehousing box; the front wheel triggers a switch in the warehousing box to remind the user of correcting a position of the rear wheel; after the user lifts the rear wheel to align with the front wheel, a conveying device in the warehousing box is able to automatically determine whether the rear wheel and the front wheel are aligned and is able to deliver the bicycle into the warehousing box when the rear wheel and the front wheel are aligned; if the front wheel and the rear wheels are not aligned, the user will be reminded of correcting the position of the rear wheel again; and
 the conveying device consists of a plurality of first sliders driven by an electric motor; and the conveying device is configured to drive the bicycle forward or backward through a lifting electromagnet when the bicycle enters the warehousing box. 
 
     
     
       3. The system of  claim 1 , wherein the bicycle frame is further provided with a locating device; when the rear wheel and the front wheel are aligned, an electric actuator drives the locating device to lock the front wheel, so that the front wheel stably aligns with the rear wheel for convenient storage and discharge of the bicycle in the warehousing box. 
     
     
       4. The system of  claim 2 , wherein a second slider is provided in the fine-adjusting device; and
 during the fine adjustment of the rear wheel, the second slider is capable of moving in a left-right direction; and during the second slider's left-right movement, a controller of the warehousing box controls the conveying device in the warehousing box to drive the front wheel forward to avoid forcible backward slip of the rear wheel. 
 
     
     
       5. The system of  claim 4 , wherein after the rear wheel is finely adjusted, the conveying device in the warehousing box pulls the rear wheel forward to separate with the second slider. 
     
     
       6. The system of  claim 3 , wherein the bicycle frame is provided with a Hall effect sensor to sense whether a meshing gear is locked or released. 
     
     
       7. The system of  claim 1 , wherein the bicycle is pushed or pulled to go into or out of the warehousing box using the rolling of the front and rear wheels.

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